University Budget Office

FUNCTIONWelcome to California State University, Bakersfield's Budget Office. The University Budget Office is responsible for developing and supporting the planning and budgeting processes for the university's support related to the State General Fund, Auxiliary Funds, Special Funds, Trust Funds and many other resources. The goal of the University Budget Office is to provide the President, the Budget Advisory Committee (BAC) and the university community with data analysis, forecasting and information necessary to support decisions as to the most appropriate allocation and use of fiscal resources. The University Budget Office is tasked to develop and implement budgetary policies and procedures to ensure fiscal control and responsibility and is to be the primary sources of budgetary information and reporting for both internal and external constituencies.

MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the University Budget Office is to provide accurate, timely and reliable fiscal information to the university community as a resource for planning and budgeting. To support this mission all efforts are made to deliver information regarding state support, revenues, revisions and analysis on a fiscal year basis. This page is provided as a service to our customers. It is intended to provide easier access to information and to help departmental users understand basic budget concepts.

VISION STATEMENT
The University Budget Office will work across organizational lines to provide the campus community with budget information and analysis in a timely, reliable and professional manner. We will be leaders in implementing new methodologies for resource management, both on campus and system-wide. We will continuously strive to improve ourselves through personal development, the use of new technologies, and accepting new challenges. We will value honesty, integrity, ethics, trust, campus culture, people and diversity.

We hope you will browse through our website using the main categories at left to find specific topics of interest. Please contact us by using the Staff Directory category and email us with any comments or questions you may have about any of the material presented.